A Heap Of Trouble, a short film from ZeD, shows the seismic effect on a leafy housing estate when nine naked men come marching through, recruiting other men to join up. It’s very English and has naked people in it. Enjoy — via Die Puny Humans
A microscopic biped with legs just 10 nanometres long and fashioned from fragments of DNA has taken its first steps. The nanowalker is being hailed as a major breakthrough by nanotechnologists. The biped’s inventors, chemists Nadrian Seeman and William Sherman of New York University, say that while many scientists have been trying to build nanoscale devices capable of bipedal motion, theirs is the first to succeed — via GeneWeb
Pizza Party is a free, text based CLI for ordering Domino’s pizza via Quikorder, or for throwing pizza parties. It is distributed under the GNU General Public License, runs under most *nix shells, and can order pizza with only a few keystrokes. Includes video of actual ordering
Less than 24 hours after accusing the Walt Disney Company of pulling the plug on his latest documentary in a blatant attempt at political censorship, the rabble-rousing film-maker Michael Moore has admitted he knew a year ago that Disney had no intention of distributing it — via Die Puny Humans. Michael Moore explains the twelve month discrepancy. It seems Disney were narced with the film a year ago, but didn’t bother mentioning this to Miramax who kept parting with money for its production. Ah, the joys of bureaucracy
US court rulings have pulled the most popular software for copying DVD movies off the market, but a new program is trying to get around these rulings and still let users duplicate copy-protected discs
The lovely Feòrag has been hard at work with Photoshop, correcting the dubious moral moronity claims of Jack Chick tracts
Harmon Leon decided to check himself into the Celebrity Centre in Los Angeles — a Scientology retreat for the rich and famous. He made sure his friends knew where he was going and when to come and get him.
We go to a fancy, roped-off office on the first floor. There’s a large desk, a book shelf, and a lot of pictures of boats on the wall.
And this is L. Ron Hubbard’s office.
The actual office used by L. Ron Hubbard?This is like being in Jesus’ room.
No. Each Scientology center has an office for L. Ron Hubbard, decorated in a way he would like it.
Oh, so the office was used when he was visiting, ya?
No. He died before this hotel was refurbished.
Someone should mention to this lady that dead guys don’t need offices. Especially an office built for a dead guy after the dead guy is dead.
Vincent Eaton’s tale of his encounter with a tapeworm is both amusing and educating. It comes complete with luscious illustrations from Chris Bishop.
For some, everything that occurs at the toilet bowl requires denying. After voiding their bowels, they scamper to a corner, kneel and pray. Then there’s the type that actually bends down to study the stuff like tea leaves. Then there’s me.
In a sign that demand is growing for alternatives to Microsoft Windows software, Red Hat will release a version of the Linux operating system and other programs tailored for desktop computers. Red Hat Desktop, announced in London, will be targeted at organisations that are looking to upgrade their PCs but don’t want or need all the features that ship with the latest version of Windows
Appalling forest destruction catches up with nationally condemned woodchip corporation. Gunns, the world’s biggest hardwood woodchipper, has been stripped of its hoped-for Banksia award to be announced by the corrupt Prime Minister Howard on 5 June, World Environment Day
If you have ever seen the cult ’60s British television program The Prisoner, in which captured Cold War spies live on an island under constant surveillance, you can imagine what life may soon be like on Ayers Island
Disney is blocking [BugMeNot] its Miramax division from distributing Fahrenheit 911
, a new documentary by Michael Moore that harshly criticises the retarded monkey boy. Disney is pushing the family friendly card, total bollocks considering Miramax is their adult arm that releases kiddie flicks like Pulp Fiction. It’s more likely that Disney is scared the film might jeopardise tax breaks [BugMeNot] granted to Disney for its theme park, hotels and other ventures in Florida, where Jeb Bush is governor. If that is the reason for Disney’s move, it would underscore the dangers of allowing huge conglomerates to gobble up diverse media companies
McMurder, a parody web site that offers statistics that show a correlation between murder rates and the number of McDonalds in cities, has been nastygrammed by McLawyers. The site has until May 10 to remove all McTrademarks
Businesses in certain US states are required by law to collect, among other privacy invasive information, the thumbprints of customers who want to sell their used video games, CDs, and books
Shadow IT minister Kate Lundy has slammed a report on offshore outsourcing commissioned by the Australian Information Industry Association (AIIA) as self-serving and one-eyed
. The AIIA report found that of 100 large business and government organisations, 12 had already completed an offshore outsourcing project and a further five were considering it as an option for later this year. Senator Lundy scoffed at the report’s findings, which appeared generally supportive of the offshoring notion, saying it was no surprise that the AIIA found those results. She also attacked the report’s published numbers, suggesting the AIIA had played with percentages to support its own agenda
Breaking all the rules of nature, the Hypersonic Sound Beam allows audio messages to literally travel through space in the shape of a flashlight beam. The sound remains invisible and silent, until the beam makes impact with the surface or person it has been meant to impact. At that precise point of impact, the sound waves disperse and the audio portion of the message magically becomes audible at that particular point. Amazingly, visitors who enter or cross the invisible sound envelopes created by the Sound Beam will experience your message inside their head; as if they were wearing headphones — via Die Puny Humans
Howard always was a corrupt, lying little bastard, so it’s no surprise that he’s axed dedicated government funding for solar research and lobbed some money the way of big business by supporting a Cooperative Research Centre for coal
The FTC said last Monday that Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates will have to pay a US$800,000 fine to settle charges that he violated financial reporting laws in conjunction with his investment portfolio. And they think that amount of money will make him change his ways, try cranking the fine up into the billions and you might make a point
An amusing guide to wading through some of the jargon that litters fan fiction. Love the description of the evil plot bunny.
Plot bunny: How a story starts: you’re innocently watching tv/film, and then you feel a strange sensation of… pain. You look down. A creature resembling the bunny from Monty Python and the Holy Grail has attached itself to your leg with three inch fangs, and you suddenly have an odd idea along the lines of ‘what if Legolas & Aragorn had been Full Monty style strippers before they joined the Fellowship?’. And it will stay there ’til you buckle down and write the story.
Habitat: depends on the bunny; a Merry/Pippin fluff bunny gambols about in the sunshire, eating lettuce, while a Frodo/Gollum angst bunny lurks behind the radiator, making horrible heavy breathing noises.
How to rid yourself of them: write the story. Suffer a head injury involving loss of memory. Get bitten by a better bunny. Rentokil (though for bunny extermination their rates are extortionate).
Technology to grow replacement teeth could mean the end of dentures. Scientists at King’s College London have been awarded £500,000 to help them develop human teeth from stem cells. The company Odontis, set up by the college, hopes to develop its research for tests on humans within two years after successful research on mice. Stem cells, the so-called master cells, would be programmed to develop into teeth and then transplanted into the patient’s jaw where the gap is. It is thought it would then take two months for the tooth to fully develop — via Die Puny Humans
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